Curriculum Vitae
Birth	July 14, 1982 in Witten (North-Rhine Westphalia)
Primary School	Brenschenschule (Witten-Bommern) 1988-1992
Secondary School	Ruhr-Gymnasium Witten 1992-2001
Abitur (German A-Levels)	Subjects: Maths and English
Studies	Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2001-2002 Courses: General Linguistics/English Studies Saarland University 2002-2007 Courses: Computational Linguistics (Major) Phonetics (Minor) Saarland University 2007-? PhD Student in the International Post-Graduate College for Language Technology and Cognitive Systems at Spoken Language Systems
Pre-Diploma (German B.Sc)	October 2004
Diploma (German M.Sc)	March 2007 Thesis Topic: Event-Based Question Answering Supervisor: Jochen L. Leidner
Study Abroad	Winterterm 2005: University of Edinburgh (Erasmus Exchange Programme)
Employment	2003-2005: Student Research Assistant at SALSA-Project 2006-2007: Student Research Assistant at CORTE-Project
Internship	January-February 2006: Institute of Communicating and Collaborative Systems (University of Edinburgh) Task: Unsupervised Lexicon Induction Supervisor: Prof. Mark Steedman